Review Paper Preventing Suicidal Behaviour in a General Hospital Psychiatric Service: Priorities for Programming

he purpose of this review was to provide evidence to sug-gest priorities for suicide prevention programming in general hospital psychiatric services. In Ontario, the AGHPS represents 48 of 60 Schedule 1 psychiatric facilities. Accord-ing to legislation, Schedule 1 facilities are required to provide essential psychiatric services, including inpatient, outpatient, daycare, consultation, and emergency psychiatric services. Given their mandate, general hospital psychiatric services and the AGHPS are well-placed to have an essential role in suicide prevention. First, more than 90 % of suicide victims are know